Holiness

Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior; — read the full passage →

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

But now, being made free from sin, and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification, and the result of eternal life.

Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.

But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;

Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,

as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance, — read the full passage →

who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →

Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love;

“No one, when he has lit a lamp, covers it with a container, or puts it under a bed; but puts it on a stand, that those who enter in may see the light.

Do all things without murmurings and disputes, — read the full passage →

If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, which you are.

Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.

because it is written, “You shall be holy; for I am holy.”

May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

If anyone therefore purges himself from these, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified, and suitable for the master’s use, prepared for every good work.

I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.

and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

Whoever remains in him doesn’t sin. Whoever sins hasn’t seen him, neither knows him. — read the full passage →

but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior;

In holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our life.

as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for man slayers,

For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

Therefore prepare your minds for action, be sober and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ— — read the full passage →

Therefore since all these things will be destroyed like this, what kind of people ought you to be in holy living and godliness,

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

But you did not learn Christ that way; — read the full passage →

that each one of you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honor,

yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without defect and blameless before him,

to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

But of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:

For such a high priest was fitting for us: holy, guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ. — read the full passage →

Soon afterwards, he went about through cities and villages, preaching and bringing the good news of the Kingdom of God. With him were the twelve, — read the full passage →

for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,

who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.

May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?

to the assembly of God which is at Corinth; those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours:

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

make my joy full, by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;

The four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around and within. They have no rest day and night, saying, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come!”

Who wouldn’t fear you, Lord, and glorify your name? For you only are holy. For all the nations will come and worship before you. For your righteous acts have been revealed.”

Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.

For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,

Beloved, don’t imitate that which is evil, but that which is good. He who does good is of God. He who does evil hasn’t seen God.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

that you receive her in the Lord, in a way worthy of the saints, and that you assist her in whatever matter she may need from you, for she herself also has been a helper of many, and of my own self.

to Timothy, my true child in faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.